Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.